Chuck E. Cheese’s

Well, it’s Chuck E. Cheese. What do you expect? It’s loud with kids aplenty. We actually went for a friend’s kid’s birthday party so we were actually without kids which was weird. The small salad bar was actually decent and we got a pizza with everything and it came out decently fast. I was amused they have beer and could see many parents needing to indulge to handle the noise.
We sat by the windows so the chaos wasn’t deafening. It’s a fun place for kids. My beef has always been how little the prizes the kids get for their tickets. Gattitown does a better job with that.

all that money coming in this place, and they have not took the time to update those creepy a@@ monsters on stage… i was scared on my visit. some of the kids were to that came with us… no happy birthday song. lol creepy.

For the second year in a row, we celebrated our son’s birthday here. Today, we were met with a friendly staff who wanted to make sure our children had a great experience. I also really appreciate the hand stamp process at the door for children security. We plan to continue this tradition, and I recommend your family visit.

Not sure what the bad reviews were for — haven’t read them– but we had a great time. The restaurant was clean, not packed and the food came out perfect. Kids enjoyed the pizza, which looked good! I got the gluten free pizza and that was decent– not bad at all. For those extremely GF sensitive it came in its own wrapper with its Own plastic sealed pizza cutter. No cross contamination. Kids ordered churros which they enjoyed. The only complaint from the kids was that it was hard to win a lot of tickets. Go figure! I used a coupon you can find online which was a great buy for 4 people and an afternoon of entertainment!

This place is DISGUSTING!!! There is no way this place should be allowed to serve food. The carpet is gross, the kitchen even more gross, walls are dirty, pizza pans are old & dirty, & there is mold in the kitchen. It needs to be torn down! Please if you care at all about sanitation… DO NOT go there!!! This coming from someone who recently did work there. #raleigh #cityofraleigh #healthcodeviolations

I found this location to very small. There isn’t a great selection of games for the kids. I brought 20 $ worth of tokens it was a waist we had to repeat games 3 or 4 times
The pros — most games give good amount of tickets for prizes
relatively quieter if you arrive early
The cons– small space&not a lot of games

What kid doesn’t like Chuck-​E-​Cheese? I should admit that I’m pretty much a big kid, so olé Chuck-E’s place appeals to me– especially when I can bring along my niece and nephews (all under age 8).
The food (we had pizza) was muuuuuch better than I remembered– it was actually surprisingly delicious! It came out fast and hot! We were happy!
The pleasantness of staff there is hit or miss. Some were great, some were not.
The games didn’t all work– a few ate our tokens, but I’m sure if we asked, we would have gotten them back. (In fairness to the machines, it was reallllllly busy there — a Friday night — I don’t blame them for taking a break now and then! Ha!
Overall, a great place to take kids! We’ll go again!

I am strongly trying to ensure I write this review in the context of the kid whose birthday to which I was invited. As an adult, I would never enter this place in a million years, and likely if it were my child, I’d probably pick differently. Hard to tell for the kids except that they are outrageously stimulated in the most cheesy way possible. It’s not a pun, just this place is beyond goofy.
1. Giant mechanical cartoon characters playing in some kind of band on stage. You must be joking! I wonder what that cost. Seriously goofy, but if I’m a kid, ok, cute. But that’s it.
2. Token system for the video games. I hate that. How about just quarters? Oh. I know why — so you can buy too many tokens and have no refund and nothing of value left going out the door.
3. Pizza was just ok. Served with bug juice (over-​sweetened kool-​aid). And this was the best part of the experience.
4. This is a nuclear detonation of spastic kids on sugar. There’s blast (running kids), heat (screaming kids), and radiation (smelly kids and sugar). This is really a horrific atmosphere. (Sorry, I said I’d try to review in kid-​context — that was my adult slip-​up)
5. Here’s the kicker. Except for the video games and birthday and pizza, they made the kid wait 20 minutes while looking at his cake, while the mechanical characters did skits and sang. The poor kid wanted his cake and presents, but got to stare at his cake for that time while they planted an INFLATABLE guitar in his hands for him to pretend play while he was still looking at his cake. You must be JOKING! After 120 minutes on site, he could still not open his presents because of the cake/​character/​guitar fiasco. Whoa. As a kid, I would be pissed.
Weird place. Weird experience. Not sure what kind of kid this appeals to. Two stars because of the play area and pizza was decent. Otherwise really overblown experience in which I could see the kid getting exasperated at the drawn-​out process of the cake ordeal.

this place really sucked! It had the feel of being in a McDonald’s, just take the kid to McDonald’s with a play area. MY 2 yeard old would have been just as happy. It had arcade machines, but not too much fun stuff for the little ones. It’s not at all how I remembered it being years ago. Won’t be going back.

This must be the worst Chuck e Cheese in the country. Granted, we brought two kids on a rainy Saturday so we expected busy, but holy shit this place is bad. Lines at almost every game, 25% of the games steal your token outright and another 25% won’t give you tickets. Just when you think salvation is near and you’ve got the exit in sight, there’s a 20 minute wait to count your tickets because only one counting machine works and 20 more minutes to belly up to the cheap chinese crap and candy counter.
It’s enough to make a conservative Christian want to get into a fist fight. No worries if you do and happen to get a few teeth knocked out. You an always stop by the place next store, Gold Grillz, and get a few gold teeth to replace those you lost and… oh fuck it… why not go one more door down and get that tat you always wanted at Romantic Torture Tattoo.
Good grief, I really needed a margarita after this place.

always a good place to release the hooligans.
these is cleaner than most of the franchise… so that’s why i gave 4 stars.
been here 4 times and each time seemed to get better. loved that they were throwing tickets in the air for the small kids.
they tossed out our pizza thinking were were done, they replaced it and gave us one to go. I gave our pizza there to a family that just walked in and we left.

Not as awesome as I remembered from my 5^th birthday party. Things have changed. Lights are too bright. You are allotted 2 beers. Ashamed that I liked the pizza, reminded me of Pizza Hut’s buttery crust.

Good lord what a zoo! If you have kids, you’ll know you have to prep your ears for lots of cries/​screams from toddlers and kids alike. Then again, if you’re a parent — you should be immune to this. Just watch your step and make sure you’re not running over any tykes here. The little ones run around delirious from game to game and that is part of the charm of this place.
So if you’re THAT mom (or dad) with THAT kid that either wont shut up or sit still for a minute — Chuck-​e-​cheese might be your hangout. Maybe you’re just babysitting an obnoxious kiddo for the day — let them run wild here because they’ll definitely blend in.
Here are some drawbacks :
–It costs money to let the kids play the games. I burned $ 5 in less than 10 minutes. Typical of places like these
— If you think your kid is wild, there’s an even crazier (sometimes with zero manners) kid and his parents aren’t even watching him. So keep an eye on your kid please!
The Good :
There is this huge (10+ foot tall) horsie ride. You have to climb some steep stairs to get on the ride. The horse can seat a grown up and 2 small children and it rocks back and forth. This was a pretty unique ride, I’d never seen at Chuck-e’s before.
Security — The hostess stamps you and your child when you come in. The stamp can only be seen in UV light. My sister tried to walk out with my 9 month old (she was walking ahead of me) and they didn’t let them out until I caught up to them I thought that was awesome. The staff tries to keep an eye on the kids and make sure each child leaves with the adult they arrived with initially.
–You don’t have to order food to enjoy the games
Chuck-​e-​Cheeses is in the Babies R US shopping plaza. As the kid gets bigger and mobile, I see more Chucke visits in our future.